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It is not clear who these ancient miners were, but we do know that the mining abruptly ended in 1,200 BC. This conveniently coincides with the end of the Bronze Age in Europe. The copper located in the Lake Superior area is some of the purest copper in the
Miners Left a Pollution Trail in the Great Lakes 6000
Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region book. A fascinating collection of early papers on the ancient copper mines of Michigan, most, if not all, of them having been written by educated men who personally observed and/or excavated ancient mines when they were relatively pristine.
Scientists find evidence of ancient copper mining in polluted lake sediments from Isle Royale National Park. A visitor crouches in front of a shaft entrance at Minong Mine, located in Michigans
#0183;#32;Ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior Region. and Du Temple get to their figures with the following faulty assumptions in their important 1961 work quot;Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Regionquot;: (different period) collected from the same area as the Old Copper Complex sites. Our collection includes copper
Drier,, and Du Temple,, Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region, A Collection of Reference Articles, published privately, 1961, and reprinted in 2005 6. Casson, L., Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times, British Museum Press,
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#0183;#32;In his 1879 text entitled Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior, John Jacob Houghton relates, beginning on page 141: On the south shore of Lake Superior the works of the ancient miners extend over a district of country comprising what is known as the Trap Range, having a length of one hundred and fifty miles through Keweenaw, Houghton and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, with a
#0183;#32;The ability to extract copper from ore bodies was welldeveloped by 3000 BCE and critical to the growing use of copper and copper alloys. Lake Van, in presentday Armenia, was the most likely source of copper ore for Mesopotamian metalsmiths, who used the metal to produce pots, trays, saucers, and drinking vessels.
The era around 3000 BC saw more than 500,000 tons of copper being mined in the socalled Upper Peninsula, in the American state of Michigan. The largest mine was on Isle Royale, an island in Lake Superior, near the Canadian border. Here, there are thousands of prehistoric copper pits, dug thousands of years ago by ancient peoples unknown.
#0183;#32;Persian Copper Stag Pendant. by The British Museum (Copyright) Copper was probably the first metal used by ancient cultures, and the oldest artefacts made with it date to the Neolithic period. The shiny redbrown metal was used for jewellery, tools, sculpture, bells, vessels, lamps, amulets, and death masks, amongst other things.
Lake Superior David P Pompeani,1 Mark B Abbott, 1 Daniel J Bain, Seth DePasqual2 and Matthew S Finkenbinder1 Abstract Isle Royale, in Lake Superior, contains evidence of indigenous copper mining; however, the timing and geographical extent of mining activity is poorly known.
It is an exact duplicate of the original 1961 edition, including typographical errors and original photographs. In the years since this book was published, there has been in the field scientific advances which are not included in this work. Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region is now available again in its original format.
: 1617 Isle Royale, on the north side of Lake Superior, was extensively explored, and a smelter built, but no mining of any importance took place there. Some copper mineralization was found in Keweenawan rocks farther southwest in Douglas County, Wisconsin, but no successful mines were developed there.
We analyzed metal, carbon, nitrogen, and organic matter concentrations to document past mining pollution in sediment cores recovered from McCargoe Cove; a long, narrow inlet of Lake Superior on Isle Royale that receives drainage from a watershed that contains numerous ancient copper mines, David Pompeani of the University of Pittsburgh wrote in a 2014 paper.
#0183;#32;Partial serpent artifact made of Lake Superior copper found at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa. NPS Photo. 7,000 years ago The earliest known metalworking in North America begins when Native peoples start mining copper on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
The Great Ancient Copper Mines of Michigan. It is estimated that half a billion pounds () of copper were mined in tens of thousands of pits on Isle Royale and the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan by ancient miners over a period of a thousand years.
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